Contrary to all the promises of reform issued last year, the proposal released today by Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba targets Israel for permanent indictment under a special agenda item: “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories,” which includes “Human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories”; and “Right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.” No other situation in the world is singled out — not genocide in Sudan, not child slavery in China, nor the persecution of democracy dissidents in Egypt and elsewhere. Moreover, the council will entrench its one-sided investigative mandate of “Israeli violations of international law”—the only one not subject to regular review after a set term—by renewing it “until the end of the occupation.”

What a travesty of justice. This council is literally thumbing it’s nose, breaking promises they made to improve their game. Well have we seen how much promises from the UN can be trusted. The UN, who were absent action-wise at Rwanda and Sudan, and who are proving to be just as ineffective as Robert Mugabe runs rampant in Zimbabwe.

So here they are giving credence to Castro and Lukashenko, who should be the ones permanently under indictment.